Can't mount shared folders in 6.1
Posted: 11. Jan 2020, 05:37
I have a VM with Arch Linux (created with VirtualBox 6.0). It was fine until I tried to mount a folder from my host it returned the error /usr/bin/mount.vboxsf: mounting failed with the error: No such device.
I found that the problem was with the kernel 5.4 and installed the LTS kernel (4.19.94-1-lts), what worked fine. However, after upgrading Virtual Box and VBoxAdditions to 6.1, both kernels broke and I can't mount any shared folders.
I reinstalled VBoxGuestAdditions and runned setup (/opt/VboxGuestAdditions-6.1.0/init/vboxadd setup), with no luck.
Any thoughts?
UPDATE: i solved the problem by uninstalling VBoxGuestAdditions (the previous installation made using the iso provided with VirtualBox), and, following directions in this post https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... atest-arch, reinstalled from pacman. In Machine Settings > Shared Folders unchecked Auto Mount and included the shared folders in fstab. As the cited post states, the VBoxGuestAdditions CD works fine in other distributions (I used it in a Ubuntu Server, without any problems) but, due to the rolling-release nature of Arch, it doesn't work.
Regards,
Mauricio Fagundes
I found that the problem was with the kernel 5.4 and installed the LTS kernel (4.19.94-1-lts), what worked fine. However, after upgrading Virtual Box and VBoxAdditions to 6.1, both kernels broke and I can't mount any shared folders.
I reinstalled VBoxGuestAdditions and runned setup (/opt/VboxGuestAdditions-6.1.0/init/vboxadd setup), with no luck.
Any thoughts?
UPDATE: i solved the problem by uninstalling VBoxGuestAdditions (the previous installation made using the iso provided with VirtualBox), and, following directions in this post https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... atest-arch, reinstalled from pacman. In Machine Settings > Shared Folders unchecked Auto Mount and included the shared folders in fstab. As the cited post states, the VBoxGuestAdditions CD works fine in other distributions (I used it in a Ubuntu Server, without any problems) but, due to the rolling-release nature of Arch, it doesn't work.
Regards,
Mauricio Fagundes